{"id":73748,"date":"2019-02-27T12:40:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=73748"},"modified":"2019-02-27T12:40:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:40:04","slug":"trump-in-hanoi-for-2nd-summit-with-kim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2019\/02\/27\/trump-in-hanoi-for-2nd-summit-with-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump in Hanoi for 2nd Summit with Kim"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"U.S. President Donald Trump is in Hanoi for his second summit with Kim Jong Un amid hopes for a deal that would lead the North Korean leader to give up his nuclear weapons. Trump received a red carpet welcome at Noi Bai International airport where white uniformed military guards marched into place on a cool and somewhat foggy night.Trump stopped for brief conversation with the dignitaries, who included Vietnam\u2019s ambassador to the U.S., H\u00e0 Kim Ng\u1ecdc; Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ph\u1ea1m B\u00ecnh Minh and the U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, Daniel Kritenbrink. Thousands of Vietnamese lined the sidewalks as Trump\u2019s motorcade entered the city, some waving small American, North Korean and Vietnamese flags.<\/p>\n

Shortly after he arrived at the luxury hotel in Hanoi where he will spend two nights, Trump tweeted: \u201cJust arrived in Vietnam. Thank you to all the people for the great reception in Hanoi. Tremendous crowds and so much love!<\/p>\n

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Just arrived in Vietnam. Thank you to all of the people for the great reception in Hanoi. Tremendous crowds, and so much love!<\/p>\n

\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

National Security Advisor John Bolton, two months ago, said a second summit was needed because North Korea had yet to live up to the commitments it made last June in Singapore.<\/p>\n

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Will Trump Offer Peace Declaration as Tradeoff for North Korea\u2019s Denuclearization?<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Negative political ramifications <\/strong><\/p>\n

A lack of a major breakthrough for the second time could have negative political ramifications for Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the president makes substantive concessions, I think he will get serious bipartisan criticism,\u201d says James Jay Carafano, the vice president of the Heritage Foundation\u2019s institute for national security and foreign policy.<\/p>\n

That would \u201cprobably be the last thing he needs\u201d amid the possible release this week of a summary of the special counsel\u2019s report into ties between Russia and Trump\u2019s 2016 election campaign, adds Carafano.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the report is good news, a distraction is bad,\u201d he tells VOA. \u201cIf it\u2019s bad news, it will compound his problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

VOA’s Bill Gallo in Hanoi:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Some analysts, however, predict there would be scant political damage for Trump as he can just declare a foreign policy victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll it takes is Kim pretending to disarm and Trump pretending to believe him,\u201d says Vipin Narang, an associate professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo long as Kim doesn\u2019t embarrass Trump publicly by testing a nuclear weapon or a ballistic missile, domestically Trump can keep rinsing and repeating,\u201d Narang, author of the book Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era tells VOA. \u201cThe advantage for Trump is that Kim\u2019s continued expansion of his nuclear weapons program is largely silent, and, at best, shows up on page 10\u201d of local newspapers in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf nothing positive happens, the Democratic Party hawks and the media may mock Trump’s pretensions and claims to be a master negotiator,\u201d says Professor Peter Kuznick, director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University. \u201cBut as long as tensions don’t re-erupt on the Korean peninsula, most Americans will be satisfied with the status quo and move on to other issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Trump can keep the North Korean leader engaged, diplomatic efforts continue with sanctions still in place and Pyongyang maintains its moratorium on nuclear and missile testing, \u201cTrump can pocket a foreign policy win going into the election,\u201d according to Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs.<\/p>\n

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With a status quo for at least another year, the president \u201ccan tell his supporters to stick with him so he can \u2018finish the job\u2019 in another four years,\u201d Heinrichs tells VOA.<\/p>\n

There is anxiety Trump might trade away the presence of U.S. troops in the Far East for concessions by Kim on nuclear weapons or intercontinental ballistic missiles. Such a move, besides alarming allies, could also open Trump to severe political criticism back home from both the left and the right.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is concern \u201cTrump will ad-lib concessions to Kim Jong Un without his team knowing about it before hand,\u201d says Duyeon Kim, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. \u201cConcrete denuclearization steps don’t mean getting rid of things they don’t need anymore. It means touching parts of their program that matter, even if they are baby steps at first.\u201d She adds that a \u201cfront-loading on U.S. concessions without getting anything proportionate in return, as Trump did in Singapore, risks losing negotiating leverage very quickly and allowing Pyongyang to dictate this entire process. \u201c<\/p>\n

One unresolved issue is a mutually-agreed definition of denuclearization.<\/p>\n

Trump administration officials have insisted there must be \u201ccomplete, verifiable and irreversible\u201d removal of North Korea\u2019s nuclear arsenal, including its delivery systems.<\/p>\n

Denuclearization <\/strong><\/p>\n

For the North Koreans “denuclearization” also includes U.S. strategic assets leaving the region, as well as its long-harbored desire for American forces to depart from South Korean and, possibly, Japan where the United States military has posted 75,000 personnel and maintains about 50 installations, not including rapid response air and naval forces on the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam that Pyongyang also considers threatening.<\/p>\n

A senior U.S. official says the American team has been seeking with the North Koreans a \u201cshared understanding of what denuclearization is,\u201d while it is yet unclear whether Kim has even made the decision to fully denuclearize.<\/p>\n

Asked whether there has been any demand from the North Koreans about removing U.S. troops from the peninsula in exchange for a peace treaty, the official responded in a background call with reporters last week, \u201cI\u2019ve never discussed that in any round of negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another possibility is that the summit pivots from an emphasis on denuclearization. There is speculation the two leaders could announce an agreement to exchange liaison officers, a step short of diplomatic recognition that would see full-fledged ambassadors posted to each other\u2019s capitals.<\/p>\n

Trump has hinted at further one-on-one diplomacy between himself and Kim.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think this will be the last meeting by any chance,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office last Wednesday.<\/p>\n

One desired outcome for the U.S. president is a Nobel Peace Prize, for which he says Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has already nominated him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the thought of Trump as a Nobel laureate seems patently absurd, he desperately wants to win, and there have been some other patently absurd winners in the past, including the recent past,\u201d Kuznick tells VOA. \u201cSo, let’s see if Trump can pull a rabbit out of his hat or out of somewhere and surprise the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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